BEIRUT: Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati told Reuters on Saturday that the group considered Friday’s cabinet session on an army plan to establish a state monopoly on arms “an opportunity to return to wisdom and reason, preventing the country from slipping into the unknown.” Lebanon’s cabinet on Friday welcomed a plan by the army that would […]
Read MoreBEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure on the Lebanese militants to disarm. “This threat will not make us accept surrender,” Qassem said in a televised speech to thousands of his supporters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, […]
Read MoreIran and its regional allies vowed retaliation on Thursday for the deaths of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, raising regional tensions as mourners filled Tehran’s city centre calling for revenge. A public funeral was held for Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital where he was killed early Wednesday in an attack on which […]
Read MoreThousands of mourners attended funeral ceremonies on Sunday for the 12 children and teenagers killed by a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as Israel vowed swift retaliation against the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the attack on Majdal Shams, the deadliest in Israel or Israeli-annexed territory since Hamas’ Oct. […]
Read MoreBEIRUT, July 17 (Reuters) – Hezbollah will hit new targets in Israel if it keeps killing civilians in Lebanon, the group’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday, noting a spike in the number of non-combatants killed in Lebanon in recent days. Five civilians, all Syrians and including three children, were killed in Israeli strikes […]
Read MoreThe Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched a rocket attack on the border-close Israeli town of Kiryat Shomona. The group said the attack was carried out early Wednesday morning. Hezbollah claimed that the attack was in response to an Israeli military attack on a village in southern Lebanon. However, there was no immediate response from […]
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